Bob Lucky

[Jim Brain via cctalk]

I don't remember seeing this here, and not sure how many of you read his 
articles, but:


https://spectrum.ieee.org/bob-lucky-obituary


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Re: Bob Lucky

[Curious Marc via cctalk]

Thanks for the link. I met him when I was at Bell Labs. He was an outstanding 
technology speaker and writer, with a great sense of humor. His columns were 
hilarious and right in target. A written form of Dilbert for the technologist.
Marc

> On Apr 7, 2022, at 10:41 AM, Jim Brain via cctalk  
> wrote:
> 
> I don't remember seeing this here, and not sure how many of you read his 
> articles, but:
> 
> https://spectrum.ieee.org/bob-lucky-obituary
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jim Brain
> br...@jbrain.com  www.jbrain.com

Re: Bob Lucky

[Peter Schow via cctalk]

On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 9:41 AM Jim Brain via cctalk
 wrote:
>
> I don't remember seeing this here, and not sure how many of you read his
> articles, but:
>
> https://spectrum.ieee.org/bob-lucky-obituary

Thanks for letting us know.  I got to meet Robert Lucky when he was at
Bellcore in the mid-1990s and visited us at U S WEST Advanced
Technologies in Boulder, CO.  He said Bellcore spent years designing a
public internet-like system at scale but their #1 concern was where
content was going to come from.  They secured preliminary deals with
some content-providers, which at the time were the newspapers and wire
services, but the whole system was scrapped when the internet took
off, as we know it today.  By far their biggest surprise was the
volume of content that originated from end users (e.g. web sites);
they didn't see that coming at all.

Re: Bob Lucky

[Chris Zach via cctalk]

Thanks for letting us know.  I got to meet Robert Lucky when he was at
Bellcore in the mid-1990s and visited us at U S WEST Advanced
Technologies in Boulder, CO.  He said Bellcore spent years designing a
public internet-like system at scale but their #1 concern was where
content was going to come from.  They secured preliminary deals with
some content-providers, which at the time were the newspapers and wire
services, but the whole system was scrapped when the internet took
off, as we know it today.  By far their biggest surprise was the
volume of content that originated from end users (e.g. web sites);
they didn't see that coming at all.


That sounds like AT&T connect! I remember working on it in the late 
80's, it was based on IPX/SPX, X400 mail and an X500 directory 
structure. In fact I think that was the identity system that Novell used 
for the later NDS directory system to replace the trusty rusty Bindery.


It was all supposed to run on ISDN lines to consumers and would be the 
ultimate market/info place all lovingly run and curated by AT&T. Then of 
course those meddling kids at FTP released PKTDRV..


Anyone else remember this?

CZ